Canadian journalist, novelist, historian and writer
Don Gillmor is a Canadian journalist, novelist, historian and writer of children's books,[1] and is the recipient of many awards for this journalism and fiction.
Gillmor's writing has appeared in Saturday Night , The Globe and Mail , The Toronto Star , Rolling Stone , GQ , National Geographic , Toronto Life and The Walrus , where he worked as senior editor.[2] He also served on the faculty of the Literary Journalism Program at the Banff Centre .[3]
Gillmor's magazine writing has earned him three gold and seven silver Canadian National Magazine Awards ,[4] and he has been called "one of Canada’s most celebrated profile writers".[5] In 2014, he won a National Newspaper Award for an article[6] on baby boomers and suicide .[7]
Gillmor is the author of three works of fiction: Kanata (2009), a Canadian historical epic,[8] Mount Pleasant (2013), a comic novel about debt[9] and Long Change (2015), which explores the life of an oilman (Gillmor worked on an oil rig in the late 1970s[10] ). He's also written five books of non-fiction, including the two-volume work Canada: A People's History , which accompanied the award-winning television program of the same name , and won the 2001 Libris Award for non-fiction book of the year.[11] Among his nine children's books are Yuck, A Love Story (2000), which won the 2000 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, and The Fabulous Song (1996), which won the Mr. Christie Book Award.[12]
Gillmor graduated from the University of Calgary with a B.A. in 1977.[13] [14] He currently resides in Toronto .
In 2019 he won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction for his book To the River: Losing My Brother .[15]
Bibliography [ edit ]
Non-fiction [ edit ]
Canada: A People’s History, Volume I (2000)
Canada: A People’s History, Volume II (2001)
The Desire of Every Living Thing (2000)
Insight and On Site: The Work of Diamond + Schmitt (2008)
Stratford Behind the Scenes (2012)
To the River (2018)
Fiction [ edit ]
Kanata (2009)
Mount Pleasant (2013)
Long Change (2015)
Children's books [ edit ]
The Trouble with Justin (1993)
When Vegetables Go Bad (1994)
The Fabulous Song (1995)
The Christmas Orange (1998)
Yuck, A Love Story (2000)
Sophie and the Sea Monster (2005)
The Boy Who Ate the World (2008)
The Time Time Stopped (2011)
References [ edit ]
^ Barber, John (4 April 2013), "We will be forever in Don Gillmor’s debt" , The Globe and Mail , retrieved 19 January 2016
^ Brown, Ian (ed.) (2014). What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men . Dundurn Press.
^ Trethewey, Laura (14 November 2012), "Don Gillmor’s 'sense of the mountains' , Made in Banff , retrieved 19 January 2016
^ 'Who Won the Most?' , National Magazine Awards website
^ Hampson, Sarah (29 March 2013), "In Don Gillmor’s second novel, debt is the new death" , The Globe and Mail , retrieved 15 Jan 2016
^ Gillmor, Don (8 February 2013), "Baby boomers and suicide: The surprising trend" , Toronto Star , retrieved 19 Jan 2016
^ (17 March 2014) "Star captures 13 National Newspaper Award nominations" , Toronto Star , retrieved 19 Jan 2016
^ Armstrong, Bob (7 November 2009), "Gillmor maps out blind luck, inevitability of history" , Winnipeg Free Press , retrieved 15 Jan 2016
^ Good, Alex (28 March 2013), "Book Review: Mount Pleasant, by Don Gillmor" , National Post . Retrieved 15 Jan. 2016,
^ Volmers, Eric (12 October 2015), "WordFest: Don Gillmor explores life of an oilman with Long Change" , Calgary Herald , retrieved 14 Jan 2016
^ Winner History – Libris Awards Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine , Retail Council of Canada
^ "The Secret Mountain" . Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-15 .
^ "WordFest: Don Gillmor explores life of an oilman with Long Change | Calgary Herald" .
^ "Distinguished Alumni | Alumni | University of Calgary" . Archived from the original on 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2017-08-26 .
^ Jane van Koeverden, "Here are the winners of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards" . CBC Books , October 29, 2019.
External links [ edit ]
1930s 1940s
J. F. C. Wright , Slava Bohu (1940)
Emily Carr , Klee Wyck (1941)
Bruce Hutchison , The Unknown Country (1942)
Edgar McInnis , The Unguarded Frontier (1942)
E. K. Brown , On Canadian Poetry (1943)
John Robins , The Incomplete Anglers (1943)
Dorothy Duncan , Partner in Three Worlds (1944)
Edgar McInnis , The War: Fourth Year (1944)
Ross Munro , Gauntlet to Overlord (1945)
Evelyn M. Richardson , We Keep a Light (1945)
Frederick Phillip Grove , In Search of Myself (1946)
Arthur R. M. Lower , Colony to Nation (1946)
William Sclater , Haida (1947)
Robert MacGregor Dawson , The Government of Canada (1947)
Thomas Head Raddall , Halifax, Warden of the North (1948)
C. P. Stacey , The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 (1948)
Hugh MacLennan , Cross-country (1949)
Robert MacGregor Dawson , Democratic Government in Canada (1949)
1950s
Marjorie Wilkins Campbell , The Saskatchewan (1950)
W. L. Morton , The Progressive Party in Canada (1950)
Frank MacKinnon, The Progressive Party in Canada (1951)
Josephine Phelan , The Ardent Exile (1951)
Donald G. Creighton , John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician (1952)
Bruce Hutchison , The Incredible Canadian (1952)
J. M. S. Careless , Canada, A Story of Challenge (1953)
N. J. Berrill , Sex and the Nature of Things (1953)
Hugh MacLennan , Thirty and Three (1954)
Arthur R. M. Lower , This Most Famous Stream (1954)
N. J. Berrill , Man's Emerging Mind (1955)
Donald G. Creighton , John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain (1955)
Pierre Berton , The Mysterious North (1956)
Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict (1956)
Thomas H. Raddall , The Path of Destiny (1957)
Bruce Hutchison , Canada: Tomorrow's Giant (1957)
Pierre Berton , Klondike (1958)
Joyce Hemlow , The History of Fanny Burney (1958)
[No award] (1959)
1960s 1970s
[No award] (1970)
Pierre Berton , The Last Spike (1971)
[No award] (1972)
Michael Bell, Painters in a New Land (1973)
Charles Ritchie , The Siren Years (1974)
Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson , Hallowed Walls (1975)
Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History (1976)
F. R. Scott , Essays on the Constitution (1977)
Roger Caron , Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars (1978)
Maria Tippett , Emily Carr (1979)
Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn , C.D. Howe (1979)
Larry Pratt and John Richards , Prairie Capitalism (1979)
1980s
Jeffrey Simpson , Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration (1980)
George Calef , Caribou and the Barren-Land (1981)
Christopher Moore , Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town (1982)
Jeffery Williams , Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General (1983)
Sandra Gwyn , The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1984)
Ramsay Cook , The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada (1985)
Northrop Frye , Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1986)
Michael Ignatieff , The Russian Album (1987)
Anne Collins , In the Sleep Room (1988)
Robert Calder , Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (1989)
1990s
Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall , Trudeau and Our Times (1990)
Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past (1991)
Maggie Siggins , Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm (1992)
Karen Connelly , Touch the Dragon (1993)
John Livingston , Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication (1994)
Rosemary Sullivan , Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen (1995)
John Ralston Saul , The Unconscious Civilization (1996)
Rachel Manley , Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1997)
David Adams Richards , Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi (1998)
Marq de Villiers , Water (1999)
2000s
Nega Mezlekia , Notes from the Hyena's Belly (2000)
Thomas Homer-Dixon , The Ingenuity Gap (2001)
Andrew Nikiforuk , Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil (2002)
Margaret MacMillan , Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (2003)
Roméo Dallaire , Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2004)
John Vaillant , The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed (2005)
Ross King , The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (2006)
Karolyn Smardz Frost , I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (2007)
Christie Blatchford , Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army (2008)
M. G. Vassanji , A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2009)
2010s
Allan Casey , Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada (2010)
Charles Foran , Mordecai: The Life and Times (2011)
Ross King , Leonardo and the Last Supper (2012)
Sandra Djwa , Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (2013)
Michael John Harris , The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection (2014)
Mark L. Winston , Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive (2015)
Bill Waiser , A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 (2016)
Graeme Wood , The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State (2017)
Darrel J. McLeod , Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age' (2018)
Don Gillmor , To the River: Losing My Brother (2019)
2020s